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The Place Of The History Of Economic Thought In Mainstream Economics, 1991–2011, Viewed Through A Bibliographic Survey

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  • Duarte, Pedro Garcia
  • Giraud, Yann

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This paper offers a bibliographic survey of the literature in the history of economic thought (HET) in eight major economics journals, using the JEL classification to retrieve and analyze the relevant literature. Our study shows that, though contributions to HET are still found in top economics journals, the rate of publication of such papers has become increasingly uneven, and the methods and narrative styles they adopt are remote from those used by historians of economics. We show that the widespread idea that historians should address current economists by using their (mostly mathematical) tools and techniques is hardly present in mainstream journals, and discuss the role of editors and editorial boards of the different journals we survey in shaping these changes over time. We conclude that historians should focus on doing good work on their own, rather than try to figure out what the economists’ preferences are, and undertake research accordingly.

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  • Duarte, Pedro Garcia & Giraud, Yann, 2016. "The Place Of The History Of Economic Thought In Mainstream Economics, 1991–2011, Viewed Through A Bibliographic Survey," Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Cambridge University Press, vol. 38(4), pages 431-462, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jhisec:v:38:y:2016:i:04:p:431-462_00
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    1. Beatrice Cherrier, 2017. "Classifying Economics: A History of the JEL Codes," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 55(2), pages 545-579, June.
    2. José Edwards & Yann Giraud & Christophe Schinckus, 2018. "A quantitative turn in the historiography of economics?," Journal of Economic Methodology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(4), pages 283-290, October.
    3. Alberto Baccini & Cristina Re, 2023. "Who are the gatekeepers of economics? Geographic diversity, gender composition, and interlocking editorship of journal boards," Papers 2304.04242, arXiv.org, revised Jan 2024.
    4. Charles, Loïc, 2024. "The HES at 50: Identity Crisis and the Need for Pluralistic Historiographical Approaches," SocArXiv 782za, Center for Open Science.
    5. Arthur Brackmann Netto & Marcelo Milan, 2017. "Transforming the Abstract into Concrete: The Dual Semantic Roots of Economic Modelling," Working Papers, Department of Economics 2017_22, University of São Paulo (FEA-USP).

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